Hard drive reliability at scale (Changelog Interviews #537)

This week Adam talks with Andy Klein from Backblaze about hard drive reliability at scale.

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Featuring:

• Andy Klein – Website, LinkedIn, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Backblaze Drive Stats for 2022
• 10 Stories From 10 Years of Drive Stats Data
• Hard Drive Life Expectancy
• The SSD Edition: 2022 Drive Stats Review
• SSD 101: How Reliable are SSDs?
• Hard Drive Cost Per Gigabyte
• A Behind the Scenes Look at Our US East Data Center
• Sean Has a New Friend. His Name Is Guido.
• The Storage Pod Story: Innovation to Commodity

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